Garment-hook.



H. M. YORKE.

GAHMENT'HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 13. 1915.

Patented July 11 1916.

HORACE M. YORKE, OF LEWISTON, IWAINE.

GARMENT-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 11, 1916.

Application filed. November 13, 1915. Serial No. 61,315. Y

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HoRAon M. YORKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved portable hook especially adapted for supporting garments and similar articles and to be attached to a door, or window casing or other projection.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved device of this character which is cheap and simple in construction, is strong, and durable, which is portable and may be readily carried in the pocket, which may be folded when not in use and which also embodies a knife and cigar cutter.

The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices, hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved garment hook, showing the same attached to a door or similar projection and arranged for use. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of my improved device with the knife blade extended and arranged for use as such. Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the device in folded and closed position.

The body 1 of the hook is made of sheet metal and has the upper end bent horizontally to one side as at 2 and then bent ver tically downwardly at right angles as at 3, and the said bent portion is provided with a slit 1 which divides the same into two bills. The lower ends of the bills are serrated to form teeth 5 which may be forced downwardly into the upper edge of a door A or similar projection to support the hook thereon and attach the same thereto. On the outer side of the body 1 near the lower end thereof are bearings 6 in which a pivot pin 7 is mounted.

A hook arm 8 which is also made of sheet metal has its lower end narrowed as at 9 and formed with an eye 10 through which the pivot pin passes, so that the said hook arm is pivotally mounted on the body and may be with a triangular brace. 11 at its lower pivot end which brace, when the hook arm is in extended position, bears against the body as shown.

One side of the body near its lower end is provided with a semi-circular recess 12 presenting a sharpened edge 13. On the inner side of the body is a blade 14 which is pivoted to the body as at 15 and hence may be extended outwardly from the body, parallel thereto to enable the device to be used as a knife, or may be folded in the body out of the way, when the device is to be carried in the pocket or to be used as a garment hook. This blade also has a substantially semi-circular recess 16 presenting a sharpened edge 17 and coacting with the recess 12 so that the body and the blade form a cigar cutter. To hold the blade for use as a knife blade and when in extended position, I provide the body with an outwardly extending lug 18 near one of its inner corners to bear against the back of the blade.

While I have herein shown and described a preferred form of my invention, I would have it understood that changes may be made in the form, proportion and construction of the several parts without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the scope of the appended claim.

Having described the invention, what is claimed is:

The herein described garment hook comprising a sheet metal body having a bill at one end to engage over the upper edge of a door or other projection, said bill being split and being provided with teeth and said body being provided with bearings at a point spaced from the end opposite the bill, a sheet metal hook arm having an eye arranged between the bearings, a pivot con- When the hook arm is extended outwardly necting the bearings and extending through from the body. 10 the eye and pivotally mounting said hook In testimony whereof I aflix my signature arm so that it may be extended from the in presence of two Witnesses.

body of the hook or arranged against the HORACE M. YORKE. same, and a substantially triangular brace Witnesses:

on the outer side of the hook arm at the Roxrn D. WOODWARD,

lower end thereof to bear against the body GEORGE A. EMERSON.

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